By Musa T. Bey

I. Introduction: The Empire’s Final Act

We are not entering a crisis—we are living through its climax. The American empire is in terminal decline. Its social contract has collapsed. Its institutions, long rotted, now stand naked as instruments of repression and elite consolidation. The myth of American exceptionalism has curdled into something bitter and belligerent: a culture that fears the future, a nation addicted to war, and a people ruled by profit and paranoia.

Donald Trump is not an outlier in this collapse. He is its symptom—and increasingly, its steward. He represents the blunt return of a settler logic that never truly disappeared. Through Trumpism, the ruling class has found a new mask for an old project: the restoration of white dominion, capitalist plunder, and patriarchal order through authoritarian rule.

This moment is not about one man. It is about the machinery that made him possible—and the future we must choose in his shadow.

II. Trumpism as Counter-Revolution

Trumpism is not simply a movement of grievance—it is a counter-revolution in motion. It seeks to roll back every gain made by workers, Black and Brown communities, migrants, and dissidents. Where we demanded liberation, it promises domination. Where we built multiracial movements, it sows nativist fear. Where we called for justice, it returns punishment.

This is the politics of backlash:

Against demographic transformation. Against the cultural visibility of marginalized voices. Against grassroots movements that dared to imagine abolition, decolonization, socialism.

What Trump offers is not policy—it is power in its rawest, most racialized form. And the deeper truth is this: his rise is not an aberration, but an inheritor of Nixon’s Southern Strategy, Reagan’s war on the poor, Clinton’s crime bills, and Bush’s imperial terror.

What we are witnessing is the culmination of centuries of settler colonial violence, now openly declared as national policy.

III. The Blueprint: Project 2025 and the Machinery of Fascist Rule

This is not theoretical. The American Right has laid out its vision in explicit detail. It is called Project 2025—a roadmap to dismantle liberal democracy and erect an authoritarian regime built around executive supremacy, racial hierarchy, and permanent minority rule.

This document, drafted by the Heritage Foundation and dozens of reactionary think tanks, outlines a step-by-step plan for state capture:

Replace 50,000 civil servants with hand-picked political loyalists. Consolidate power in the presidency through expanded emergency powers and the “unitary executive” theory. Eliminate or defund federal agencies that protect civil rights, labor, education, the environment, and health care. Militarize federal law enforcement and use the Insurrection Act to suppress protest. Impose a Christian nationalist moral order by banning abortion, criminalizing gender expression, and mandating conservative curricula in public schools.

This is not about conservatism. It is fascism dressed in bureaucracy. A program that openly seeks to erase multiracial democracy, nullify constitutional rights, and rule through fear and coercion.

And they are not hiding it. They are publishing it.

IV. Political Terror as Governance

The modern fascist project relies not only on propaganda or elections—it requires political terror as a governing tool. This terror is systematic, multifaceted, and deliberately escalatory.

January 6 was not an accident. It was a trial balloon for authoritarian seizure. Militia movements and armed vigilantes now act as unofficial enforcers of reactionary rule, especially in the South and rural Midwest. Police unions and sheriffs increasingly operate as political actors aligned with the Right—stockpiling weapons, resisting civilian oversight, and criminalizing dissent. Legislatures in red states have passed laws to criminalize protest, ban books, strip local governments of power, and target political enemies through legal harassment.

And all the while, corporate media normalizes the threat—refusing to call it fascism, reducing insurrection to “polarization,” and presenting genocide as a policy debate.

We are beyond the stage of warnings. We are now living in the active implementation of state violence as a political strategy.

V. The Failure of the Liberal Center

While fascism organizes for total control, liberalism clings to the illusion of civility. Biden, Schumer, and other liberal elites still imagine that the system can be saved through compromise, decorum, and bipartisan commissions.

This is fantasy.

The courts are captured.

Congress is gridlocked.

The Supreme Court has been transformed into a theocratic council.

Corporate Democrats refuse to expand democracy because they too are invested in maintaining order—not justice.

This is not a conflict between two political parties. It is a struggle between a decaying elite class and the people fighting to survive them. The “center” will not hold—because it never truly did.

VI. A Program for Revolutionary Resistance

We must not respond to fascism with fear, nor to liberal failure with despair. We respond with organizing. With solidarity. With revolutionary clarity. Our counter-power must be built from below.

Our principles:

Build dual power: Create structures outside the state: food sovereignty projects, people’s assemblies, neighborhood defense committees, and independent media. Mass political education: Spread a true accounting of history—of how slavery, settler colonialism, and capitalism gave rise to this crisis—and how abolitionist, socialist, and Indigenous resistance always pointed the way forward. Disrupt elite legitimacy: Protest, strike, occupy, divest. Treat corporate collaborators and fascist candidates as enemies of the people—and deny them the social peace they rely on. Organize across difference: Build coalitions across racial, class, and geographic lines—uniting Southern Black workers, Midwestern rural poor, immigrant communities, and urban youth under one banner of liberation. Train for resistance: Develop movement security, digital defense, mental health resilience, legal solidarity, and rapid response capacity. Repression will escalate. We must be ready.

The goal is not to “save” the American system. The goal is to outgrow, outlive, and overthrow it.

VII. Make It Ungovernable: Sabotaging the Fascist State

The only power fascism respects is disruption. The only thing it fears is a people who refuse to obey.

To make the country ungovernable is not about spontaneous chaos—it is about deliberate and strategic refusal to comply with an illegitimate regime. This is how people under occupation, dictatorship, and apartheid have resisted across history.

We must:

Withdraw labor: Encourage mass worker walkouts in logistics, tech, healthcare, education, energy, and public administration—especially in regions complicit with fascist governance. Target infrastructure of repression: Disrupt police precincts, surveillance centers, prison transports, and border checkpoints. Use blockades, occupations, and digital leaks to reveal their internal workings and fracture their legitimacy. Overwhelm the legal system: Engage in mass civil disobedience. Force courts to choose between prosecuting thousands or admitting they have lost control. Use political trials as platforms of exposure and defiance. Protect liberated zones: From rural land trusts to city mutual aid hubs—defend spaces that serve the people, not the state. These are the seeds of new governance. Dismantle the financial pipeline: Freeze capital flows to fascist forces. Boycott, divest, blockade, and redistribute wealth from the top down. Target hedge funds, oil companies, and think tanks funding repression. Undermine ideological control: Refuse nationalist myths. Burn flags, challenge school curricula, reject patriotic rituals, and expose every lie used to normalize colonial violence. Organize a general strike: Coordinate labor shutdowns, port closures, transit halts, and solidarity actions in every city and sector. Make the economy scream not for profit, but for justice.

If the fascists want to rule, make them rule nothing. If they want to govern, make it ungovernable.

From Puerto Rico to Palestine, Ferguson to Atlanta, Minneapolis to Oaxaca—people have shown that when governments wage war on the people, the people must wage ungovernability in return.

VIII. This Is It

This is the line.

This is the moment.

This is the last warning before the storm becomes the state.

There will be no cavalry. No miraculous return to normal. No institution will save us. The courts have already chosen hierarchy over justice. The Senate has chosen gridlock over governance. The media has chosen balance over truth. The Democrats have chosen order over freedom. And the fascists have chosen war.

This is not politics as usual. This is a rupture—a fracture in the narrative of American stability. And how we respond now will define whether we allow a new fascism to take root—or whether we make this empire ungovernable until it breaks.

There will be no perfect conditions. There is no more time to wait. The climate is collapsing. The fascists are mobilizing. The death machines are humming.

This is it.

This is where we remember what resistance looks like:

When enslaved Africans organized revolts under moonlight. When Indigenous nations fought off annihilation and preserved their sovereignty across centuries. When poor Southern sharecroppers joined arms with urban radicals to build the Rainbow Coalition. When miners shut down coal trains, students seized buildings, farmworkers marched barefoot, and families took over land and housing by force.

This is not a rehearsal.

This is not a crisis to comment on.

This is the fight of our generation.

From this point on, neutrality is complicity. Silence is surrender. Compliance is collaboration. You are either with the people—or with the machine.

History is not watching. History is being made—right now. By those who organize, by those who disrupt, by those who risk everything to build something worth inheriting.

So choose. And move. Because this is it.